Once unquestionably the world's leading economic and industrial power, the United States now views with growing dismay … United States truly lagging in its ability to compete effectively in world markets? Concern over this question has been …, policymakers, and those in the business world …

economic development of the entire world. Especially in Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan, exports increased dramatically …There is no doubt that the open multilateral trading system after World War II was a key ingredient in the rapid … emerge as significant factors affecting world trade. This volume contains thirteen papers that analyze the tensions between …

This paper considers the determinants of exports of modern services and traditional services. It considers the growth … of export volumes as well as export surges, that is, the periods of rapid sustained export growth. It asks whether the … determinants of export growth rates and export surges differ between merchandise, traditional services, and modern services and …

, a level that China should achieve by or soon after 2015. Among our more provocative findings is that growth slowdowns …